[css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hello, Just curious if anyone knows of a CSS3 technique that would restrict a photo's caption (in this case, I want to use figure and figcaption for the markup) to the bottom of a photo of an unknown width? I've been playing around with display inline-block and table, but I haven't had any luck

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: With all that said, I was just curious if there's a new-ish CSS3 way of doing what I want. I don't mind not supporting the older browsers, Heck, I'd even be interested in seeing how this is done using an HTML table!

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread John Snippe
On 2013-07-18, at 6:06 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Hello, Just curious if anyone knows of a CSS3 technique that would restrict a photo's caption (in this case, I want to use figure and figcaption for the markup) to the bottom of a photo of an unknown width? I'm unclear: how can you be after

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi John! Thanks for showing interest in my question, I really appreciate the help. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, John Snippe j...@snippe.ca wrote: I'm unclear: how can you be after responsive and be dealing with an unknown width at the same time? Would you not, at some point, be defining a

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully that helps to clarify. Please let me know if I can provide more information. Here's a quick demo I've slapped together: http://jsbin.com/eruxew Scale the view port up/down (Firefox/Mac users can use

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread John Snippe
On 2013-07-18, at 6:40 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Hopefully that helps to clarify. Please let me know if I can provide more information. Will this work? http://www.snippe.ca/tests/hulse.html -- John Snippe __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Philip Taylor
TABLE + CAPTION, Micky ? http://photos.for-charity.org/resources/tests/Wrapped-caption.html Philip Taylor Micky Hulse wrote: Just curious if anyone knows of a CSS3 technique that would restrict a photo's caption (in this case, I want to use figure and figcaption for the

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi John! On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:20 PM, John Snippe j...@snippe.ca wrote: Will this work? http://www.snippe.ca/tests/hulse.html Thanks so much for the additional help, I really appreciate it. :) That would probably work, but I'm trying to avoid setting widths on parent elements. I just want

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Philip, thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Philip Taylor p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk wrote: TABLE + CAPTION, Micky ? http://photos.for-charity.org/resources/tests/Wrapped-caption.html Hmm, yah, that's an obvious one. ;) I'll play with that. I

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread John Snippe
On 2013-07-18, at 7:26 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: That would probably work, but I'm trying to avoid setting widths on parent elements. I just want the body/viewport to be the only parent the figure. Sorry that I did not specify that before. OK... getting closer here ;)

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, yah, that's an obvious one. ;) I'll play with that. I wonder how a table responds to max-width:100%? But yah, I'll play with that and post back my findings to this thread. Close! But a no-go on the responsive:

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Wow, thanks for all the help John, I know I sound like a broken record but I really do appreciate it!!! :) On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, John Snippe j...@snippe.ca wrote: On 2013-07-18, at 7:26 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: That would probably work, but I'm trying to avoid setting widths on parent

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread John Snippe
On 2013-07-18, at 7:59 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Ahh, now that's interesting. I think I see what you're doing there with the 100% width on the image. That's a good tactic! I'm not sure what's going wrong with my test url... the server isn't sending out what is ACTUALLY on the server

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:07 PM, John Snippe j...@snippe.ca wrote: I'm not sure what's going wrong with my test url... the server isn't sending out what is ACTUALLY on the server currently... there seems to be some sort of cache issue. Anyhow, here's where I am leaving it. You'll notice

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 19 juil. 2013 à 09:07, John Snippe j...@snippe.ca a écrit : You'll notice that the src has size attributes. They are over-ridden by the CSS, it appears. I didn't know that would happen ;) That is expected :-). But you better leave out the width/height attributes, or, override _both_ of

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Philippe! Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it. :) On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote: As for the original requirement (the caption won't be wider than the intrinsic width of the image), I don't think there is a css property (current or

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 19 juil. 2013 à 10:05, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com a écrit : Hey Philippe, any idea why Safari doesn't mind obeying max-width on a table and Firefox does? See second example on this test page: http://jsbin.com/eruxew/2 You mean on the table at the bottom? Safari is a little

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Firefox and Safari on my machine are doing the same thing here. FYI. Although the one on the bottom does not have the same text in it so it is kind of hard to tell if it is working. The text on the bottom doesn't pass the width of the image. have you tried.. word-wrap: break-word; on your

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Actually correction, I thought you were talking about the width of the text below matching the image, I see now your talking about the responsive image sizing. Sorry. Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: Firefox and

Re: [css-d] Horizontally align/restrict caption to bottom of photo of unknown width

2013-07-18 Thread Micky Hulse
Hi Karl! Thanks for the help! Much appreciated. :) On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote: Firefox and Safari on my machine are doing the same thing here. FYI. Although the one on the bottom does not have the same text in it so it is kind of hard to tell